Permanent-ringlet curler



Nov. 9,1926. 1,606,638

' E. I. HUCKE PERMANENT RINGLET CURLER Filed Sept. 14, 1925l"Illznzalnllllllllfll Ez/ci-E/v/A I. HUC/rE,

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Patented New. 9, 19226.

`IElJ'Ci-FNIA I. HUCKE, OF LOS ANGLES. CALIFORNIA.

PERMANENT-RINGLET URLER.

Application led September This invention relates to devices used Jforcurling hair. l

One of the objects of this invention is to provide a device in whichhair may be disposed in ringlets instead of being twisted and woundaround tubes. Another object is to provide a device in which hair can beheld in ringlets without supporting cover or holders. l

Another object is to provide a device with a hollow into which hair maybe disposed in ringlet-lorm.

Another object is to provide a device with a hollow in which hair may bedisposed, being closed except for a comparatively small opening throughwhich the base of a hairstrand may extend while the hair is disposed inthehollow.

Another object is to provide heating means in the ringlet holder.

Another object is to provideelectric heating means through one or bothhandle members of the\ringlet holder.

Another object is to provide means for holding oppositely disposedringlet holders together Jwhile hair is disposed between the holders.

Other objects will appear from the. following description and appendedclaims `as well as from the accompanying drawing, in which-4 Fig. l is atop plan view of a pair of holding members connected by a hinge, inopened position, having electric heating connection through one handle,the second holding member receiving' the electric connection through theinterconnecting hinge.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary cross section on line 2-2 of Fig. l, the handleportions being broken away, and the two oppositely disposed holdingmembers being shown in closed position.

Fig. 3 is a cross section on line 3-3 of Fig. l, taken through thehandle portions.

Fig. 4L is a cross section through the handle portions on about the lineLiv-4, being a slightly modified form of locking means for the handleportions in case the electric heating means is inserted through bothhandleportions separately.

Permanent waving of hair is commonly practiced by experts, and at thatis rather uncertain and to a great extent unsatisfactory, especiallyalso as to permanency of the produced waves or curls. It is generally14, 192'5. Serial No. 56,186.

understood that permanent waving results mso-called nigger-wool insteadof the more desired and liked ringlcts, to compare with naturalringlets.

The device of the present invention is principally intended to producenatural ringlets or ringlets to equal natural ringlets..

As illustrated in the drawing, the device is made of two hair-curlingVor holdingmembers 5 and 6, hingedly interconnected at 7, and providedwith handle-portions 8 and 9 by which the hair-holding members can becontrolled.

`Each or the hair holding members is recessed, as indicated at l0, in acircular somewhat concaved manner, so that hair may be disposed betweenthe two holding members fully close around the inserted hair along theedges of the holding members- 5 and 6, A portion of the enclosing edgesof the holding members is cut away in form of a passage or an openingl1, so that a strand of hair can beA disposed through this opening 11while the larger body of the hair is curled or in a curled conditiondisposed. in the hollow of the hair-holding members.

In the back of the holding members 5 and 6, other cavities l2 areprovided, to take care of necessary heating elements 13.` Theconnections for the heating elements may be inserted through the handlemember or in any other suitable manner. In Figs. 1, 2 and 3, aconstruction has been shown, by which the connections may be disposedthrough one of the handle-members, in this form through the handlemember 8, to directly connect with the heating elements in theholdingmember 5, while the heating element in the holding member 6 isconnected with the heating element in the holding member 5 through thehinge connection 7 the hinge being in this form so designed that theconnecting wires may pass around the pivot-pin of the hinge asillustrated in Figs. l and 2, without interfering with the operation ofthe hinge-connection. The interconnecting wires between the twoheating-element-sections of the two holders 5 and 6 are indicated at 14.

However, the heating elements in each of the holding members 5 and 6 maybe provided' with separate connection through the separate handlemembers 8 and 9, in a similar manner as now illustrated in the handlemember 8, without the interconnection at 1 4..

In the simpl-e form of Figs. l, 2 and 3, a

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simple yoke-like member 15, pivotally connected to the handle member 8,as indicated at 16, serves to lock and hold the handlememher 9 andthereby the holder 6 tothe holder 5 in closed position of the device.

In case'of having separate connections for the heating elements througheach of the handle members 8 and 9, so that the yokelike lock 15 couldnot be used, the lock 17 is pivotally connected to swing` sidewise overthe second handle-member 93 to lock this handle member to thehandle-member 8a in a similar manner for closing the haii--holding-members 5 and 6 as described above.

Ot' course, the hollow 10 can also be provided in one of the members 5and 6, in which case the other of thesemembers serves merely as a cov-erfor the hollowed section of the hair-holding device.

The principal feature of this device is to provide such a device inwhich hair can be disposed in ringlet form in a hollow to firmly enclosethe ringl-ets, and in which such ringlets can be properly treated.

The treatment is then merely secondary, and any known treatment can heapplied to such ringlets in the enclosure, boraX, lanoil, or any otherprocess, and the ringlets can be embedded in cloth, felt, or othermediums itor such treatments while held in such hollow of thehair-holder or curler.

The connections 18 for the heating elements are supplied with properterminations, as electric plugs or the like to fit on the differentmakes of treatment machines orto be attached directly to the electricsockets of the electric light system of a house. In this manner, thisdevice may either he used as a part of a complicated treatment apparatusof professional establishments or may be used a single hand-curler inthe private home ofindividual users.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. In a curler, a hair holder made in sections, 'each having a shallowround recess in its face, so as to receive hair-ringlets and adapted tolii'mly enclose such ringlets and having heating means for treating theeuclosed ringlets.

2. In a curl-er, a closable concaved hair holder having heating meansadapted to facilitate treating of haireringlets in the concaved holderwhen disposed therein, the cavity in the holder being of circular andcomparatively shallow form with edges to contact so as to seal andfirmly enclose the hair during the heat treating.

3. In a curl'er, a hair holder made in sec tions hingedly connected andhaving a cavity wit-h edges to abut to' `firmly enclose hair ringletswhen the hingedly connected sections are closed upon one another with anoutlet of comparatively small size for the insertion of the base of theenclosed hair while the hair is so held in ringlet form within theholder.

4l. In a cnrler, a hair holder made in sections provided with a cavitywith edges to abut adapted to enclose haiI-ringlets air and steam tightwhen the sections are held together, heating means in the holder forheating the holder while hair-'ringlets are disposed in the holder, andlocking means for holding the sections of the holder so as to firmlyenclose the inserted hair-ringlets while treated.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname.

EUGENIA I. HUcKn.

